Alicia Luz Rodríguez

No Room for Speculations

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Exhibition from November 12th to December 01st, 2022

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In No room for speculations, Alicia Luz Rodríguez addresses the topic of her own lesbian identity with a series of embroideries using mainly kitchen towels and quotidian textile artifacts that have been found or handed over by friends, as material to become stitched text pieces informed by different sources such us banners at dykes march, lesbian herstory archives, quotes from poetry and thoughts of the artist. The exhibition brings together the intensity and the celebration of being a visible lesbian.

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Alicia Luz Rodríguez (b. 1992  Santiago de Chile) lives and works in Berlin. Alicia is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in acting and performance art participating in numerous films and performances. She graduated with an MFA in Performing Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2020. Recently she has incorporated embroidery as a new medium into her practice, resulting in a body of work intertwining the limits of language and discourse in identity politics.